Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-11-19
MURDERED HIS MISTRESS.
The SENSATION THAT REleNs IN
THE CITY OF DETROIT

The Violent Death of Mrs. Rising and
Capt. Mills. Under circumstances Point
ing to Mills as Murderer and snieide
Other Complications.
DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 18.-Capt. A. Fl.
Mills, a well known vessel man, shot
himself at his home on Jefferson avenue.
Capt. Mills was once the owner of the
finest line of harbor tugs here. Seversl
years ago his son secured, by some
means, two of his hest tugs, and set up
an opposition business. The captains
remaining tugs were decided to his wife.
Three years ago his wife, Sarah f., died,
leaving the old captain as executor of
| the will, which devised the property to
three younger children, Mary, Andrew
and Agnes. Mrs. Mills was a niece of
Ex-Governor Morgan Of New York, and
the captain had great expectations of
property from that source, causing him
to live rather highly. The Morgan estate
did not pan out very greatly and Mrs.
| Mills, share was paid in Wabash bonds
at par, though they We're worth only 40.
For a couple of years then The old man
pooled his tug business with his son
William, bu the latter thought he could
do better alone and this year
left the father to look after
himself. The old captain bought coal
in Windsor, on the Canadian side of
the river, n getting into debt for it his
tugs were seized by the Judge of the
maritime court, for the fuel bills. Then
the daughter Mary began to fear that the
property was melting too fast, and thai
her father was getting too seriously in
voiyed, and determined to secure the APP
po.ntment of an administrator Three
das s ago she put IN d petition asking for
the removal of her father from the
charge of her mothers estate, on the
grounds that he had never been quail.
lied. Her petition was granted,
and G. j. Berry, a lawyer, appointed
administrator Berry made affidavit that
Capt. Mills was ~unlawfuily holding some
of the property. At 6 O'clock in the
evening he went to call on the captain,
and had not got out Of the house, after a
stormy interview, when a pistol-shot
rang from the old mans room. He had
blown out his brains and was found lead
on the floor with u smoking pistol beside
him. tits given out THAT he shot him.
self, but an inquest will be held. The
ball entered the mead back of the left ear,
and the revolver was held so close to the
head as to burn the hair. He had been
sitting at a table writing, and his reyol-
yer lay by the right side of his chair.
These facts lead TO ugly suspicious in
some minds of foul play.
a new complication was added to the
Mills case by the finding of the dead
body of Mrs. Austin Rising, wife of the
manager of Capt. Mig tug line, in her
bed room, on Congress street, but a few
blocks from the Mills residence. 1t has
long been a matter of rumor that Capt.
Mills was unduly familiar with his man
ayers wife. He telegraphed to Mr..
Rising that he wanted to see him about
the tugs, and would meet him on the
dock at seven O'Clock. This was about
half-past four. Immediately afterwards
the captain went to Mrs. Rising's resi-
dence. Shortly after five he was seen to
rush of the Rising residence and hasten
toward home. About half-past eight
O'Clock Mr.. Rising went home with a male
companion, and the two drank very
freely of whisky. Policeman Mulho!-
land, hearing their noise, looked through
the blinds and saw Rising pick up a lamp
i8u64ago into his wife's bed room. He
came out Immediately, and the two men,
after taking another drink went to Capt.
Mills residence. Rising returned homo
alone about half-past ten, and in going
into his wife's room found, the first time,
her dead kody, She lay on the bed, with
her head riddled with bullets and her
blood and brains scattered over the floor
and walls. He rushed ont and shouted
for help. Officer Mulholland came up
and arrested Rising on suspicion of hav-
ing killed his wife. Examination of the
body showed that she had been dead
some hours. 1t appears from the testi-
mony of Capt. Stone, of the steam yacht
Leila, that Mills had d quarrel. with Mrs.
Rising over some appointment which he
protested to believe she had made with
another man. Mills told Stone, whom
he met on coming oRaiof the house, that
she would never keep the appointment
for he had torn her jacket up. The
jacket was a valuable one and a present
from Mills. 1t was found in the house
torn into shreds. 1t would seem that
Mills had killed his mistress and then
gone home and shot himself. Mrs.
Rising's body has been taken to the
morgue for an examination of the
number and character of the wounds,
Rising is confined in the police station,
though the coroner believes him innocent
of any knowledge of the crime.